Sunday, July 12, 2009

Discerning the Voice of God

Right now I am attending a bible study on Sunday afternoons with some amazing ladies, and we are going through a book called Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer. We're only on week four but the homework has already been so "in your face" and very thought-provoking. Today we talked about how God's voice reveals his character and that we get to know God through His written Word. Here are just a few highlights from today's video:

The better you know God, the more clearly you can hear God.

Focus on God - not merely on hearing God.

You can distinguish God's voice by pressing into Him (through His written word).

Don't go voice hunting instead of God hunting.

Correct communion with God in our ears can only emanate from intimate communion with Him in our hearts.

Search the Scripture to get to know God, not just to get from God.

It is God's responsibility to cause you to hear and to recognize His voice. (Proverbs 3:5-6; Philippians 3:15; Philippians 2:13; Psalm 37:4)

God leads perfectly because He is love and He is good.

God WILL speak to us...we just have to press into Him! And when we press into Him, He will speak so clearly that we will not doubt that we are hearing from Him.

At a point in the video Priscilla just brings it full force with who God is through the Bible. One of the ladies in our study took the DVD home and watched it again in order for us to have the list and I just had to share it with you. Here we go (it's long but so cool):

Really

Followers

We are six women who have all been friends for more than ten years. Some of us have been friends for almost twenty years. That makes me laugh just writing something like that. TWENTY YEARS?! We must be getting...OLD. We've each decided to take one day a week to blog. We can assure you, randomness will abound. Hopefully you'll find it interesting!